Piper Reasoner smiles as she asks a series of questions to a student in the training room at Legend High School.
“What is your name?”
“Are you nauseous?”
“Am I in focus right now?”
Minutes earlier the boy, 17, was elbowed in …
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The University of Phoenix is stopping on-campus enrollment and will close approximately 20 campuses across the country as part of a “teach-out” program.
The university has three Colorado locations: one in Lone Tree, one in Westminster and one …
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In preparation for an influx of holiday shoppers, the Park Meadows mall and local government entities are paving the way for improved traffic flow in and out of the shopping center via County Line Road.
The first phase of the project, on schedule …
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From his Summit County home near Silverthorne, 9,000 feet above sea level, John Fielder watches an approaching storm front, waiting to find if it will bring rain or snow.
“One the edge of bad weather is where I get my best shots,” Fielder …
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Chris Cummins sits on the floor, cross-legged, facing his wife Cindy in the recliner where she spends most of her day. With her right hand, she strokes her Chihuahua, Porscha, snuggled in her lap. Lining the wall near the chair is a pile of …
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First responders see a lot of tragedy in their line of work, but Eric Hurst, who recently returned from assisting local emergency services in Orlando, Florida, after Hurricane Irma, described the experience as “especially eye-opening.”
“As …
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Chef John Wu and his wife Hong came to the United States to pursue their dreams.
John’s was to be a chemist.
Hong’s was to run a restaurant.
After finishing his master’s degree in chemistry at the University of Texas El Paso, Wu opted …
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Hundreds of people running for their lives from packs of bloodthirsty vampires may sound like a nightmare, but for Lauren Jones, organizer of the 2017 Vampire 5K at Flat Acre Farms in Parker on Sept. 30, it's a dream come true.
Jones and her …
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In July 2016, Richard Braden woke up and couldn’t hear his grandfather clock. The 80-year-old Lone Tree resident knew that years of working with “big guns” in the U.S. Army had caught up with him, but it gave him the idea for his first …
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A new law granting immunity to citizens who break a vehicle’s window to rescue at-risk animals and humans went into effect on Aug. 9.
“It’s already exceeded my expectations,” said state Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone, who introduced House …
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